(EDITORIAL) A week from now, the annual session of the All-India Muslim League will be held in Karachi. It is a facile habit to call the latest meeting of a political organisation as historic and speak of “unprecedented enthusiasm”.

The factual growth of the Muslim League does not, however, call for any use of hyperbole.... When there is a good case there is no need for the language of exaggeration,

and the President of the Muslim League has always … chosen words carefully even to the extent of making under-statements, sure of the strength and indisputability of the Muslim cause in India.

The complaint is heard that while Hindu leaders fill the columns of newspapers with a plethora of statements and speeches, little appears from Muslims. This should not be taken for lack of argument but interpreted as the certainty of their case established with an economy of words.

All eyes are on Karachi. It was the Muslim League that, far in advance of the resolution adopted by the Congress at Karachi twenty years ago, had declared the independence of India as the goal of Muslims. Latter-day prattlers who figure on the Congress platform speak as if they were unaware of that historic fact and as if Hindus pioneered the claim for independence.…

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2018